Log House BEFORE

I honestly don't know how much longer we can keep calling our house "The Log House." The logs were covered with bat and board last summer, so unless you've been here before then, you wouldn't know which house on the ranch was made of logs. But that is beside the point.

Work on Phase II: The Interior of our addition on the log house has begun, and if I don't blog about it NOW it will all be over! I can't believe how fast everything is moving along. We thought the work would begin on February 2nd, so we were rushing to move into the bunkhouse, as you may recall. But it actually started about a week later. Luckily there was plenty of time to finish up moving and cleaning and take these Before pictures.

This is the living room BEFORE. And yes, there are some odds and ends that we just didn't know what to do with...luggage, some other stuff. But this gives you some scale to demonstrate exactly how, um, spacious it was...

Directly through the living room is our kitchen (right, obviously) and dining room (left). The sliding glass doors used to lead outside. I took this picture standing near the front door, as tight into the corner of the living room as I could get. You understand when I used the word spacious earlier, I was being facetious.

Below, looking through the living room in the opposite direction, the boxes and table are in the old dining room, and the hallway leads to the three teeny bedrooms, bathroom and laundry rooms. Still more odds and ends...an old (perfectly good but outgrown) car seat, and to the right of that you can see the porthole that used to take the wood stove chimney up and out of the house. Now it just leads into H-Bomb's old bedroom (and yes, a small child can fit through there, but we've discouraged it).



Above, and a couple pictures below, is our old kitchen in its entirety. Hard to believe that this little kitchen launched The Bad Girl's Kitchen recipe blog, and most of the fabulous recipes therein. (wait until you see our new one!)




Finally, there is the old playroom, which the boys call "H-Bomb's Old Room." It has taken turns as a nursery/guest room/playroom/workroom, but now it will become the sitting area in our new master bedroom suite.


We might have to change the light fixture though...


We aren't doing anything in the existing bathroom but adding a tube skylight and an exhaust fan, and the laundry will be untouched as well. The existing master bedroom will become the boys' room, with plenty of room for bunk beds and toys, and the existing boys' room will become a guest room/office type space. I think. We aren't changing anything in those rooms either, although they did get new windows last year in Phase I.